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New marine records in the ESENIAS region (March 2016)

New marine records in the ESENIAS region (March 2016)

A Collective Article on “New Mediterranean Biodiversity Records (March 2016)” has been just published in the Mediterranean Marine Science journal. The authors coordinated by Dr. Paraskevi Karachle and Dr. Argyro Zenetos from the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Greece, present additional records of species found in the Mediterranean Sea. The findings include the following alien and cryptogenic species from the ESENIAS countries:

Italy: Charybdis (Charybdis) feriata, Seriola fasciata, and Siganus rivulatus; the presence of Taractes rubescens (Jordan & Evermann, 1887) is recorded for the first time in the Mediterranean from Italy;

This article illustrates the great contribution of citizen scientists to monitoring biodiversity records, including alien species records, as 10% of the authors are citizen scientists, and contributed to 37.5% of the new findings.